bujía
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#59,832
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bujía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pieza de los motores a combustión de ciclo Otto que proporciona la chispa que encenderá el combustible, dando lugar al tercer tiempo del ciclo. Pronounced [buˈxia].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bujía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [buˈxia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bujía is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [buˈxia]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,832 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bujía in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is bujía, spelled B-U-J-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pieza de los motores a combustión de ciclo Otto que proporciona la chispa que encenderá el combustible, dando lugar al tercer tiempo del ciclo.
- 2Pieza de materia grasa enrollada en torno a una mecha o pábilo, cuya lenta combustión proporciona luz.
- 3Utensilio empleado para transportar una bujía₂.
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Frequency rank: #59,832 in Spanish
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